Your 2024 Fly Fishing Ambitions

Acristickid said:
I had not read through the posts from the beginning of this thread until now. Wishing caddisflyer well.
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Thank you. I am doing surprisingly well after a difficult period of chemo, radiation and surgery. My doctors are even amazed. I don't want to get too ****y about things though because cancer is very sneaky. Going today for more scans. I have had a so so year in terms of catching fish but a very good year in terms of my appreciation of life. Enjoy every minute folks!
 
caddisflyer said:
Thank you. I am doing surprisingly well after a difficult period of chemo, radiation and surgery. My doctors are even amazed. I don't want to get too ****y about things though because cancer is very sneaky. Going today for more scans. I have had a so so year in terms of catching fish but a very good year in terms of my appreciation of life. Enjoy every minute folks!
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Great to hear.
 
I have not met my goals of fishing more streams, mainly due to the hot weather and warm waters. Looking forward to cooler weather. The Upper Branch of the Delaware does stay cold, but it's 3 hours away so can't do it very frequently. Hope to go there very soon.
 
My goals for the year were
1. Enter a fly fishing contest and do well. - I did and placed 3rd out of like 50 entrants
2. Spend more time throwing streamers - I have, although it’s hard to put euronymph rod down when it’s working well
3. Travel outside of PA - I fished SD, WY, MT, ID and WV
4. Find some new streams and fish new regions of PA. - so far not done enough of this yet. Hopefully in the fall or next spring.
 
JSky said:
My goals for the year were
1. Enter a fly fishing contest and do well. - I did and placed 3rd out of like 50 entrants
2. Spend more time throwing streamers - I have, although it’s hard to put euronymph rod down when it’s working well
3. Travel outside of PA - I fished SD, WY, MT, ID and WV
4. Find some new streams and fish new regions of PA. - so far not done enough of this yet. Hopefully in the fall or next spring.
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Aggressive and worthy objectives.
 
To live to 82 and keep catching big trout.
 

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steelhead trip is planned for October. I was doing quite a bit of trout fishing before the water warmed up. Now it’s back to bass

Steve
 
Biggest success so far : Placed 1st in a competition this spring! Had a blast meeting other anglers/ sharing techniques!


Biggest L so far :Still really not fishing Stillwater’s with confidence. Finding fish, fishing the right depth and technique are things I really want to work on come this fall and winter.
 
PatchezMDM said:
2 goals this year.

Improve my casting and learn to double haul and shoot line for my Florida trips. I suck at it currently.

Fish more and start a journal to keep track of weather, time of year and patterns that produced. All to improve the consistency of catching fish not just fishing.
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Well my casting is improving so that is half of one down. Still can't seem to get the double hauldown. More work is required.

I've fished with the fly rod exclusively this year so that's half of the second one down. Still have to get the journal stuff together. Anyone have a good app for that? Preferably one that dosen't share the info with the whole community. Looking at you Fish Brain.
 
wbranch said:
To live to 82 and keep catching big trout.
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You look familiar. Were you at Black Walnut Bottom at Pine Creek last October? A guy who looked just like the man in the photo enthusiastically congratulated me when I landed a trout on an October caddis.
 
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